A RICH MAN-BIG BONANZAEN FETE.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 48, 26 June 1878, Page 2

A RICH MAN-BIG BONANZAEN FETE.

What shall a man do to. bo saved from eatm, if O«»ys th.o World), ho havo an in* conio of over two millions and n half a year—- not two millions and a half in. francs, lirc.pcaotus. or any unsatisfactory coin of that sort, but in good English pouuda $ .# ow this is no fancy quostion as to tho effect of boundloM woalth. Tho inoomn I nauio is limited, and strictly so ; it is not a million a year, or thrco mil* lion8 N bu«t only iv little over two millions and a hal£. There is au»an in, San Prnacisco who is doomod to dsaw this sum from his investments., He is oiuj of four who havo tho lowest ghajos in tho Consolidated Y'irginj!* raj no (of silvoc), otbnrwiao called i tho Big Honunzi, and about tho richest iv tho world. Tho four aro known, as tho Bonanza kings ;, and Mr Mi»okay> as owning a throe-eoliths sharo of tho on,* tiro profits of tho mit>o, is a sort of em.\ pcror among tliom. ijYoui the mining sharo nbjno ho druws about 800,000 <iol-« lars in gold every mjonjtli ;. divide it by 5 fox* a rough calculation in, Knglisk raonoy and nay multiply tho £100,000. by 13, and you havo «Cl,9iHoiA), as tho ! income for the yenr from this one source ; ICvca with this suni^ what U a man, who. Haves w>,niueh K to do to ho saved.. , 16e may puJt it out in other enterprises, in the hope of losing sorao, and having loss. to counU Alaji, Mr Mfaokay has dono flOr-J qa»;iot speak as to. the intention, Inkfc only as to thjo (act— and it brings in, moro monoy than. over.. It will not got lost.. Ho buy«< nita. IJwited Stat&s funds, 'andahoy turn out nn exocllent invest* nient., Tit is. estimated that at this present ;imo of writing tho sum of £5. a minute in coming to. hjm as incomo from nil sources ; and that this cocs on for nil (ho minutosoflho day and ninM, for nil the days and nights in tho. year. JJotweeu midday and initi.lay. then, the yielil of his fortuno— to sny no.'hing of tho oapi-« tal—is £7.2iH)'; and this tmilM'pliod by 205, gives £2.028.000, tho suiawhioh he has annually to fi'id somo uao for on peril of going melancholy mad. Think of getting up every morning with, tho task of disposing of your day's, fraction of that awfnl «urn P; Think of lying down every niuht with tho knowlodi;o that your ' fiver' of l<\to is being added to fivor without a minute's inter-* micsion through alt tho silent hours ! Tho rrflji'otion ou^ht to take tho impudence out of tho Pilgrim, of Love for evorruore as if ho w,ero tho only follow in tho world' with tho prospect of ' no rost but tho grav.o !'• Suppose, you, woro this man. bowed bonoiitli tho 100, vast orb. of your luel(,,what oould you do. to prevent your load from 'growing insupportable, to koop your orb down % VVoll, you might do something in Amorica by building tho beat house,, buying tho boat olot'ios, drinking tho host winos ; but, as a friend,. 1 should 1 arlviso you. to como straight to Vnris, tako opo of tho largest mansions — sny an entire frontage betwoon two tborouglifaroß radiating from tho Aro do l'Ktoile— and then give carto hhnaho to tho upholsterors, dcooratorß, and art-workmen of ovory description in tho mattet of ' fixings.' IJhis dono, try to livo in, tho place for a timo ; and whon you find it hatfl you too much, hurry back to San Francisco, so as to bo spending monoy at both ontkof the wire, and loavo your wifoin ohargo, with general ins'motions to luy out a& much as sho can. This is osactly whit, Mp Mackay scorns to havo dono, A big simple minded man— quite able if tho fancy took him. to, doa day's, work in his own niiuo— ho tried Paris for a tirao,.and in American phaso ' wontrouud' only to find that it was, boroing him to. death.' Ho did not know the- language ho didmot know tho ways ; : and ho soon saw, I supposo, that you can do tho tomb, of Napoleon, or tho top of the Arch, as, well for ono f ratio as for a thouaaud. lie wont back liko a phjlnnLhrophist, loaving tho whole establislixopnt, which ho could notonjoy, just iw ib 3tood, in tho hepothat it might somphow tend to uiako othors happy. Mis wife, a thoroughly lady liko porson, —they ace both young— has, done her best to oarny oujt his prosumpd, instructions. Sho- doos not apparently want to outshino others,, but slio oanuot holp it, having positively no, motive to. count tho cost in whatever sho. does.. Tho inovU ! tablo conscqfienoo of hor patronago is that i her tradospeoplo, tho dressmakers in par* \ ticular, loso all their French, custom; ,

They form siHi extnivaga it idoaa of prices flint the wealthiest pnoplo h*vo to. fly. They charge more la oovor the loss and it Is beiiovc-l, go on adding cipher to cipher nn tho items, until shatna visits oven their consciences and taxes, tho bill. It is never taxed l>y anybody else, B>xos nt cacti .of llio openvtioiwcs get rid of a fow thousands > hut they nre ft more fton* bite to tho general .«um. Winter feies howeyor, come loyally to their aid* and do. the poor absent millionaire many n good turn. A number of these wero given last season \. and tho visit of General Grant has just been made tho occasion of anot'icr, w,hioh opous tho sorios for tbopresent yean It wa-i tho vorf biggest thing seen ial?na|^ >'\\co tho days whoa tho Empire dnncod so mornly on that crust ot «lory that hold tho earthq,uako glory of Sedan, Tho houso is n splendid oxamplo of what may bo done in emulation of Alad* cm's geni by modern moan*. I Boally.- do not think tho geni could ha?o iniprovod on tho feat except in getting through his work in a night, This, was not finished quite so quickly, Mr Mackuy rubbod his dollar and ordered a palace, and it was roudy in a surprisingly short time Ali, but tho taste 1 You can buy taste in Paris, doar madanv\ as you can buy anything else—it is included in tho bill. I would dofy you to fnul richer wood-> curving, Tutor parqJio'orie,more beautifully varied combinations of white and gold* of silk and satin in all hues, than aro to* be seen in tho dining-rooms, drawing rooms,, and boudoirs of tli.is house, JCvorv* thing is, at bast in double ; and therearo sometime!} four or five rooms appro-, printed to tho same u.sos but" in different styles. You may smoke .n Constantinople above stairs, in a perfect divan ; ii> I'ompcil below, whero th ( ? walls, tho chairs, tho tamp*, tho (boring, are in. porfeot omnlation of a Roman villa. Tho cigar box is decked with oyster-shells,, with, pearls in tho rough inside ; tlm bedroom,-* they aro veritable room* of state, and were all thrown open on Tuesday in, tho old French fashion—. aro.»ilkon nosU. in blui», in rose' in ho.iven knows what. besidos,, that can unfit them, for their uses, by kcoping the eyes wide open in, v per/. petual staro- of astonishment nt (ho. cunning of tho hand of nun.. The costlist Indian, sh.wcis apparently are not worn in Una family; they nro. Dimplyhung in liou of paper, on tho wills. But this. is> moKoly the house in its norm*l stftte, For the dinner and roception, in, honor- of General Gxunt tboy ad Id dec •<•.»( ion. They built a place in th<>. gnnl n, for tho- band,, some fiyo-nml« tw.rnr. of the best performer* of d.inc«v ' nut <t<- in Pariw. They built a ftlso fao^do. in ilio cour that looked rathor m->ro mv poi«ifi^ ihsii the rent one, and fillo I th-i intervening, spice w.ilh ihribs and H;»worn, from Nice,, at, . T- should say something Mohalt \ guinea n bud. Tho flowers earn.)in c rtloads ;. they strewed them, every-wlu'i-D and then, by anally happy thought they made their temporary parterre* m-*n>. co.Uly by putting somo hundreds of UufFod> tropioul birds to .nosl-10-among the loaves. Ir, was another hnppy thought toll voon«. graved slabs of silver for Hie nwnu- usloadt of cards A fi'W hundred dollar* Woro burned away out sidn by n<\ illu n mtion. of tho front; of ihe building. Uavim: ceen whit mrt of a houso. money can buy, now lot us sue crtiMt company—hum, we must not analyse them, too closely, if only became tho snulvUt wns there All that you, ean.sav •■« 'h t it f* not en3V to «••( Ihe veiy h' I*l1 * 1 >ti th»i> e.-njiino'lity by the moro ruM>u»v: of therinir. I' lake* limn, tho. Roni himself niiylil 'tavo f.rli'd. Tho company was n. litllf mixed, and no wond«r^-qll ti«ti«Mi». n'ilios wero there. O/io of tho o»v*lio-* was a deniist — \ tooth-enrpentoi* as it wan puf by a friond ; others would have boea. held worthy to sit, at- mea^ with.hi< cvi« to:nors, wlio nro mostly Stings. Iv was mixed ; you can my n<-> moro, in part porhaps, bocauso it suitod tho hostess to havo it 80. Had it born othorwiso a saving of but ono-hnlf of the outlay on. sworrlod footmen, finme with halberds in. their hands, would hnvo more than Rut(i<;od to hiro-a Auulcicnt supply of needy nobles of good- character to give graco to tho scone, Tho rough ostimalo of tho cost \s a hundred thousand francs, or a littlo moro than half tho income for Ihe twenty-four-hours. Tho Boucnzi* King in San Fran* cisoo must hn»o slept a littlo. moro easily that night when they sent him tho nows by cable,. Ho had £1000 less to count the next morning : and ho had somo oxcuso for thinking tint ho h:id>*mado others happy,' as ho did not hoar their remarks.